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I've got a MBP 3,1 with 4gigs of RAM. I've been wondering the same; I think technically, my machine will support it, but I don't know if the whole experience will be a good one. Lion currently runs well, a little slow, but well. I don't want to end up in a similar spot like I did with my iPhone 3G, which technically ran iOS 4, but was very slow doing it.

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I've got a MBP 3,1 with 4gigs of RAM. I've been wondering the same; I think technically, my machine will support it, but I don't know if the whole experience will be a good one. Lion currently runs well, a little slow, but well. I don't want to end up in a similar spot like I did with my iPhone 3G, which technically ran iOS 4, but was very slow doing it.

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I think that will work with Mountain Lion. I wouldn't worry about performance as it seems to be better than Lion across the board.

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So I have a Macbook 2,1 I want to install ML on, and I upgraded the Ram to 4GB. Can I install ML and will it run OK?

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There have been several guides posted concerning this. If you search GUIDE under "search this forum" as pictured below and scroll through you will find a variety of guides attempting to get Mountain Lion to run on old unsupported Macs. Depending on how skilled you are though, it might be better for you to just keep your Mac at the latest supported version of OS X. I'm sure the posts in the threads will help you get a better idea of how your MacBook might handle it though.

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